OCZ Reveals New Bootable PCIe SSD

[lolsir]

i wish i was a billionaire then i woulda buy'd the most expensive and good computer parts like this little sucker and woulda also buyed whole librayr of steam and also pirated game for fun through rapidshare premimum ha ha

 

[_Cubase_]

1TB @ 740MB/sec!? Whoa! You me where I can get these babies and I will start applying for that loan!

 

[JamesSneed]

I assume this is like the first gen RevoDrive where they have the garbage collection built in the hardware so there is no need for OS level TRIM.

 

[dreamer77dd]

I like the idea of a raid with these cards, have 4 working or more together. I wonder if OCZ will make them for pci 3.0 later but hopefully not in 10 years from now. I think they could really take this to new heights.

 

[tychoblu]

Unfortunately there are few motherboards that support boot from pcie.

 

[pcworm]

[citation][nom]Pyroflea[/nom]Ver' nice, how much?[/citation]
man..
I almost died in laughter

 

[dEAne]

This is part of my next build.

 

[palladin9479]

These are not for the home user or even the hard core PC enthusiast. These are for professional workstations and possibly scratch space for a specialized server. $450 for the 100GB version and you use it as a boot drive for ultra fast OS disk performance while using some form of SAS RAID for your data. Or go $3K+ for the 1tb version and use it as boot + scratch space for 3D rendering or other A/V type work. Its not really meant for any form of gaming system and I just don't see anything a home user would do benefiting from this thing.

 

[princessolive]

I bought a 120GB SSD and it was no where near as fast as the claimed speed. It only reaches the claimed speed on ATTO benchmark and only in 1 subset of the benchmark. The pros: Windows and games startup faster, about twice as fast. Cons: Not much faster than a mechanical hard drive.
Whenever you buy a new product, google "help (name of the product)". Then you will get the real dirt on it.

 

[c0decX]

"The drive has a starting price of $464. A 240GB version sells for $669 and the 480GB model goes for $1,397, according to OCZ. Pricing for the 960GB model was not available."

- Resource: Computerworld

I think I'll stay S-ATA xD

 

[gtvr]

These are for enterprise/servers. Speed for that much cost is worth it in a lot of circumstances.

 

[blackened144]

This is one reason I love working where Im at, they dont care how expensive the technology is. We were testing the IO Fusion drive before. We had a few Intel SSDs when they first came out.. Now we have 10 Colossus ssd drives we have been testing but those were a horrible idea with 2 drives in raid0 all running through 1 Sata II port. My only concern is these may not fit in the Supermicro quad servers we are running here right now. Maybe the Ibis would be better in there.

[citation][nom]aaron88_7[/nom]If it doesn't support TRIM it's impressive performance numbers will only last for so long. OCZ's previous Sata interfaced SSD's did not support TRIM, and considering this isn't mentioned in this article I can only assume it isn't supported on this one.Sorry, it's a decent idea, (except that most 4x PCIe interfaces are situated where a large GPU resides), but without TRIM it's pretty much useless.[/citation]

With the latest firmwares OCZ Vertex and Vertex 2 drives support both TRIM and CG. For TRIM to work properly yo still need a controller with support and currently the Intel is one of the few companies with compatible controllers. Since these are in RAID0 though, only garbage collection will likely work.

[citation][nom]joex444[/nom]If you have to ask, you can't afford it.[/citation]

Whats a ZJ?

 

[atomyc]

cost: an arm and a leg.

 

[noblerabbit]

the funny and real part of this is, in ten years, this will be obsolete, for we will be either on, or off, with zero waitstate in between, before, or after either state. Marketing will have to come up with genius advertising to sell us the products of the future. Thought control, and effectively using it. This is the next bubble. And yottabyte storage the size of RFID.

 

[grieve]

while $450 is a lot to get the entry level drive, it pretty much crushes everything else on the market. $450 is actualy reasonable (in computer world). When was the last time you could pick up the best video card under $500? or the best processor for under $1000.

If i had $450 this would be my next upgrade... As soon as it hits #300 im in!

 

[noblerabbit]

[citation][nom]grieve[/nom]As soon as it hits #300 im in![/citation]

you are the type of customer that drives innovation, vendors love you!

Vendor: ok our prime focus product of last Quarter is now $300, lets release a KILLER product at $450 and see the sheeple buy , buy , BUY!
mission accomplished!

 

[tester24]

HOLY CRAP 1 grand for a 320GB model... Sheesh too rich for my blood...

 

[eddieroolz]

Very expensive, but you have to pay up for speed...

 

[robisinho]

I havent been able to use 400gb in 6 years .. cant wait for the price to come down, I think I can settle for one of the smaller drives

 

[KILLBOT-AU]

Yes I bought one (120gb), BUT my mb (asus formula iv) doesn't support boot by pci. Waiting for a bios update from asus. It did boot and boot quick but was unstable when installing some programs. Windows7 loaded ok but some games did not. The mb thought it was a gpu at times. I will hang onto it because I will use it in the near future. Fingers crossed that ASUS fix by bios problem. On the plus side, my new 6970 rocks 😛